The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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